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Why is accept rate more important for /review tasks than answers?

In Shog9's answer to a question about why the voting options have been removed from the \Review task beta, he explains: The core philosophy here is that each queue focuses on a specific task or ...
joran's user avatar
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13 votes
1 answer
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Flags against "improve your accept rate" comments are failing

This evening, I happened across one of the more useless varieties of "improve your accept rate" comments. Actually, that's all it was: "Improve your accept rate". I flagged the comment as "not ...
Michael Petrotta's user avatar
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19 answers
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Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate

My feature request (or anti-feature-request perhaps) is the following: Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate. For those of you who know "Fawlty Towers", the whole issue of a visible accept rate ...
Bart's user avatar
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After editing a post, "x% accept rate" disappears

When you edit a post (inline editing) and click Save Edits, the text x% accept rate (where x is some percentage) below the poster's user card in the bottom right-hand corner disappears. I think this ...
pimvdb's user avatar
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21 votes
1 answer
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Accept rate not showing anymore

I just noticed that the accept rate of me and another user with > 5k rep is not shown anymore, although there exist enough questions (> 4 with an answer). Why? UPDATE: It looks like acceptance rate ...
Daniel Hilgarth's user avatar
11 votes
6 answers
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I am awarding users "Answered" even when they don't answer the question, just so my Accept rate isn't harmed

Of the 26~ish questions that I have asked to date, the majority of these have been questions which aren't directly applicable to many situations. They are broad, and they are really only applicable to ...
Laykes's user avatar
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0 votes
3 answers
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How can we deter users from prompting question-askers to improve their accept rate?

I'm tired of people whinging in question comments about people's accepted answer rate. Can we have a button by the answer rate that people can click to say "hey! improve this!"? Maybe if a threshold ...
Jeff Yates's user avatar
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0 votes
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Update accept rate upon asking a question

Wouldn't it be benificial to immediately update the accept rate of a user when he asks a question? This allows him to first accept answers to improve his accept rate, and then ask a question, showing ...
Steven Jeuris's user avatar
11 votes
1 answer
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Accept rate display bug?

I thought accept rate was only supposed to be shown if a user has 4 non-wiki questions older than 3 days. I was looking at this question, and the user only has 2 questions, and one of those is less ...
Jon's user avatar
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19 votes
2 answers
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Remind new users to choose some answers?

I've seen some new users lately with very low rep that are asking away and not selecting answers. This hurts them and others. It hurts them because they don't gain the rep of having selected an answer,...
Moshe's user avatar
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16 votes
2 answers
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"accept rate" misleading, please correct [closed]

I don't meant to be critical, you guys are programmers, not English grammaticians, but this is obviously wrong and needs to be fixed. Fortunately the solution is relatively simple: Please make this ...
Pollyanna's user avatar
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Expired bounties arguably not eligible for accept rate

Concerns have been raised in other questions that accept rate discourages asking hard questions. In the light of that, wouldn't it be reasonable that expired bounties do not count towards the accept ...
David Hedlund's user avatar
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7 answers
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Don't calculate accepted answer rate on meta

Meta is a discussion site and accepting an answer on many questions makes no sense. Since this statistic is now reported, it may be taken as a measure of the level of participation. For a discussion ...
tvanfosson's user avatar
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15 votes
1 answer
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Accept Rate - Closed and "No Answer" questions should not count

I really like the "Accept Rate" feature. I think it will encourage folks to accept answers once they get a good one (though, hopefully they will not accept bad ones just to get their rate up). I ...
Vaccano's user avatar
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11 votes
2 answers
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Add the number of questions used in the acceptance rate criteria to the display [closed]

Adding the number of questions used in the acceptance rate calculation will help give context to the percentage. For example, a user with four questions who has accepted 2 answers will have an ...
tvanfosson's user avatar
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